Photographs of victims of forced labor in the United States.   Nilda came to the United States when a friend of her employer in Guatemala City offered he a job working as a domestic worker. Her employers had always treated her well and as the oldest in her family she jumped at the opportunity to travel to the United States and make money to help her younger siblings and parents survive.   Once in the United States she entered a hellish situation of working about 16 hours a day for almost no pay. Her employers, who were Honduran, sent her mother $100 per month, but withheld her passport and put her under strict psychological control. She was not allowed to talk to anyone outside of the house and was often threatened with physical violence. Her phone calls were monitored and her boss listened to every phone call back home to her mother. She worked under these conditions for two and a half years before she was rescued by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. She now live in the Dallas area and is fighting a deportation order from the United States government.   This project is supported by Lexis Nexis
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